But some operators are less pleased. Loren Rutherford of Nomad Adventure Tours says higher air fares to South Africa have hurt her moderately-priced camping safaris.
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But within days of their arrival at Archers Post, about 220 miles (350km) north of Nairobi, they were accused of illegally conducting their own safaris from the air, flying helicopters alarmingly low and scaring off the animals in the nearby game reserves.
Like most plane safaris, it soars back into civilisation at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, from where Hemingway was air-lifted to Nairobi after contracting dysentery in January 1934.